Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack of Common Crawl on This Week in Startups #222

Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack of Common Crawl–a free and open index of over 5 billion Web pages–joined This Week in Startups to talk about web data access and democratization. Gil and Nova helped us tackle topics like search, social networking data and how ordinary users can make use of the crawl.

News Panel with Sean Percival and James Altucher on This Week in Startups #223

Sean Percival, EIR at Science, and writer and entrepreneur James Altucher joined the TWiST News Panel to unpack a week dominated by CES product news. They also paused to offer their analysis on SOPA, Google’s shady scraping practices in Kenya and the working conditions at the Foxconn factories in China.